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serving to reproduce; concerned with or pertaining to reproduction; sexually mature male or female termite; member of the reproductive caste

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  • Regulatory logic confirmed a link will have a copy of the IQ motif reproductive and nonreproductive functions.
  • Aside from the ethical questions -- should we tamper with embryonic cells, or perform nonreproductive human cloning?
  • Theologians did not permit masturbation, but they did not focus sharply upon it, for sexuality itself, and not only nonreproductive sexuality, was to be overcome.
  • I'm sure they could alter the genetics to make the mutant tree nonreproductive - kind of like seedless watermelons?
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